Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-45440

Medium

Published: 17 January 2023

Published
17 January 2023
Modified
17 December 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0014 33.6th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-45440 is a medium-severity Link Following (CWE-59) vulnerability in Zyxel Ax7501-B0 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 4.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability exists in the FTP server of the Zyxel AX7501-B0 firmware prior to V5.17(ABPC.3)C0, which processes symbolic links on external storage media. A local authenticated attacker with administrator privileges could abuse this vulnerability to access the root file system…

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by creating a symbolic link on external storage media, such as a USB flash drive, and then logging into the FTP server on a vulnerable device.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

zyxel
ax7501-b0 firmware
≤ 5.17\(abpc.3\)c0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References